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April 19, 2018 Daniel Maria Klimek
In June 1981, six young Croatians in the village of Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that the Virgin Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world. Throughout history, people have reported encountering extraordinary religious...
Revista Mosaico - Revista de História April 17, 2018 Pepita de Souza Afiune
O presente artigo propõe uma discussão a respeito da relação Ocidente-Oriente, procurando compreender de que forma ela está presente no contexto neoesotérico na contemporaneidade, sobretudo, no movimento da Nova Era. Partimos do pressuposto que houve a priori, uma criação do que entendemos por Oriente por parte do olhar Ocidental em seu interesse colonial, o que atraiu muitos viajantes,...
Oxford University Press eBooks April 5, 2018 Michael Lifshitz, Eli Oda Sheiner, Laurence J. Kirmayer 22 citations
This chapter explores psychedelics as catalysts of spontaneous thought. Classic serotonergic psychedelics such as psilocybin, LSD, and ayahuasca can induce potent alterations in cognition and perception. The chapter reviews research on these substances through the lens of cultural neurophenomenology, which aims to trace how neurobiology and sociocultural factors interact to shape experience....
English language notes April 1, 2018 Nathan Wolski
Abstract: According to the Zohar, the most important work of the classical Kabbalah, in prayer the soul of the mystic ascends through seven celestial halls or palaces as part of its quest to unify the male and female aspects of divinity, and thereby stimulates Ein Sof, the infinite aspect of divinity to pour down its bounty. As the soul ascends through the halls—diverse qualities of being,...
Postmodern Openings March 30, 2018 Antonio Stefan Sandu, Loredana Vlad 18 citations
In the transmodern context, transhumanism appears as a new paradigm, with a centripetal tendency, which proposes the reinventing of man by overcoming the current biological limitations with the help of new technologies, so called human amelioration.In our work, we want to discuss in a speculative manner the possibility of the existence of the posthuman individual in the biological and moral...
March 28, 2018 Dylan Evans
The distinction between jouissance and desire is first developed in the seminar on the formations of the unconscious, in the sessions of March 1958. From Kantian ethics to mystical experience, from frigidity to racism: judging by the range of the contexts in which it appears, the concept of jouissance is certainly versatile. During the course of Jacques Lacan&s;s teaching, jouissance is used in...
Routledge eBooks March 21, 2018 Paul Marcus
An "intraworldly mysticism" is also a part of engaging the Infinite, of glimpsing immortality. To experience in oneself the love and joy of communing with the Infinite, that is, a sense of infinite being, knowledge, and bliss, requires a state of mind that nurtures the transcendent urge through compassion. Whether one calls them selfish cravings, inordinate needs, or infantile narcissism,...
Routledge eBooks March 21, 2018 Michael Eigen
A lot of therapy is about the slow recovery of faith, at least more of it, a more informed faith, wiser, fuller, ready for anything. Although S. Freud ostensibly developed a theory and clinical approach to neurosis, the author points out in The Psychotic Core that his concepts are heavily steeped in a phenomenology of psychosis. Freud spoke of flooding as a primal trauma. Mystics also attest to...
The Iranian Metaphysicals March 20, 2018 Alireza Doostdar
This chapter deals with Cosmic Mysticism. The popularity of Cosmic Mysticism in Iran should be understood within the context of spiritual-therapeutic movements that have proliferated since the early 1990s, a development that is in turn connected to significant economic and social shifts in the years following the end of the 1980–1888 war with Iraq. A dual process of economic and cultural...
Mindfulness March 11, 2018 William van Gordon, Edo Shonin, Thomas J. Dunn et al. 38 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are life transformational events that are increasingly being subjected to empirical research. However, to date, no study has investigated the phenomenon of a meditation-induced near-death experience (MI-NDE) that is referred to in ancient Buddhist texts. Given that some advanced Buddhist meditators can induce NDEs at a pre-planned point in time, the MI-NDE may make...